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find debris. It's still not clear whether it comes from flight MH370,

and until it's confirmed, relatives continue to hope. Until there is

concrete proof that those passengers are dead, I can't let go of that.

Ships are on their way to the new search area in the Indian Ocean.

We'll bring you the latest. Also tonight: Do you know what your

children are watching online? New figures for how many are

watching pornography. Two people in the UK catch TB from

their cats, the first known cases in the world.

And tears of joy for the woman born deaf, hearing sounds for the first

time. Tower block danger - a new report

says hundreds of thousands could be at risk if a fire breaks out.

And Max Clifford brands women who've accused him of sexual assault as

fantasists. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

News at Six. The search for the missing Malaysian

Airlines plane has taken another twist. Now unidentified objects in

the southern Indian Ocean, which could be debris from flight MH370,

have been spotted by plane. Until now, debris had only been seen from

satellites. They were found after the area being searched was shifted

700 miles north east, off the west coast of Australia, on the basis of

new analysis of radar data. It's now three weeks since the plane

disappeared but many of the relatives in Beijing are refusing to

give up hope. From there, Damian Grammaticas sent this report.

21 days, and still nothing. Today, the search shifted 700 miles north,

based on new consolations about how far flight H 370 could have flown.

This continuing analysis indicates the plane was travelling faster than

previously estimated, resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing

the possible distance it travelled south into the Indian Ocean. And

there were new sightings, unidentified objects in the sea.

Photos have now been brought back to Australia for analysis, but until

the objects can be retrieved there is no way of knowing if they are

rubbish or pieces the missing plane. Until there is concrete proof that

those passengers are dead, I can't let go of that. Proof is what the

families crave. Sarah's partner was on MH370. Without it she believes he

may still be alive. I like to tell my -- myself he is sitting someplace

thinking about me and putting positive energy into staying safe.

And that he will come back to you? Absolutely. The only alternative to

that scenario is that he is still strapped in a seat at the bottom of

the ocean, and I'm not sure I want to live with that. And can you

believe what you are being told? No, of course not. We have not heard one

concrete, credible thing out of them that has not somehow been

discredited after the fact. And the Chinese relatives no longer believe

what they are being told. Today, all 150 families staged a walk-out from

their daily briefing by Malaysia and officials. We are not satisfied with

what they are telling us, she said. They are just wasting our time here.

The Malaysians were left facing an empty room, deliberately humiliated.

Can I ask what you are waiting for now? This was not a press

conference. There was no answer. We are trying our best, they insisted,

before leaving. They can't give the families what they want. They want a

clear answer to where the plane is and where their loved ones are. The

families are gathering to decide their next step, but every day this

goes on, their frustration is growing and so is their mistrust

towards the airline. Every day the search effort is gathering pace, but

until it yields something, few of the families can accept that their

loved ones are really lost. And our Sydney correspondent, Jon

Donnison, is in Perth, where the search operation is based. You've

just got off one of the spotter planes. What are the pilots saying

about the debris they've seen? I have just come off an 11 hour flight

and the aircrew on that Australian air force plane felt it was the most

positive day they had. We saw several objects in the water. They

were then firing flares into the water to try to mark the spot where

they had spotted the debris. The problem is that you spot it, but you

are going at 200 mph, very low over the water, and by the time they have

turned the plane around and get back, it is difficult to find it

again. The truth is that until the ships managed to pick up some of the

debris, potential debris, have a look at it, identify it, we are not

going to know if it is connected to MH370. The thing is, it has been

three weeks. Even when they do find debris, it will have now drifted

possibly hundreds of miles from where the plane actually crashed.

Do you know what your children are watching online? According to the

online video regulator, thousands of children, some as young as six, are

watching pornography on the internet. Nearly 500,000 people

under the age of 18 accessed adult material last December alone. But

the figures don't include smartphones and tablets so the real

number is likely to be far higher. Our technology correspondent Rory

Cellan-Jones has more. What children see on the web has

long been a worry for parents. Now there is real evidence that they are

visiting adult websites. The search for the online video regulator

tracked 45,000 internet users with the same techniques as those for TV

ratings and found out how many children were visiting pornography

websites. Figures show that in one month nearly one quarter of all

internet users visited and in -- and adult site, but nearly half a

million were 18 # under 18. One site alone was visited by over 100,000

boys. If you go into a licensed sex shop and you are under 18, you are

thrown out, let alone buying a DVD. Thousands of primary school children

upwards are accessing material that you could not entertain before.

There is positive content but there are other things to consider.

Parents at an internet safety evening said it was a huge concern

to them. I was not aware it was that easy. I thought there might be some

sort of PIN number, or you had to apply for it, not that you could

stumble across it. I feel very strongly that I try to protect my

children and somebody out there decides to put something on the web.

Clear evidence that children as young as primary school age are

visiting websites offering pornographic videos with no form of

age control. The problem is that these websites are based outside the

UK, but the regulator has an idea on how to put pressure on them. Follow

the money. The regulator wants new laws to make payment companies stop

providing services to websites that do The aim is to reduce the housing

benefit budget and encourage those living in homes bigger than they

need to move to smaller ones, thus freeing up much needed social

housing stock. But figures obtained by the BBC suggest that so far it's

having a limited effect. Our social affairs correspondent Michael

Buchanan reports. Moving home is something that social

housing tenants do far less than those in the private renting

sector, so the government hoped that by cutting benefit for tenants with

spare bedrooms, not only with the welfare budget be reduced, but

larger homes would become available. In Hull, Jane Dennis shows me around

her new one-bedroom flat. She has downsized from a three-bedroom

house, where she was building a rent arrears. I have a smaller place now,

so it is easier to clean and keep on top of things. Because you don't

need a big place when you are on your own. And you don't have to

worry about your rent. No. I am not getting in rent arrears. Her house

used to be a dilapidated bedsit over an alleyway. Her housing association

are now converting them into much-needed one-bedroom flats.

Turning these condemned buildings into comfortable one-bedroom flats

is a positive outcome from this welfare change, but the bottom line

is that there simply are not enough smaller properties for people to

move into, and so they are not moving. We have gathered data from

over 200 local authorities, and over 100 housing associations.

Information from councils in Scotland, England and Wales suggests

6% of council tenants whose benefit was reduced have moved. If you add

the figures from the housing associations, 28% of tenants who

were debt free a year ago are now in rent arrears, and councils are

sitting on millions of pounds of emergency funding given to them by

government to help tenants affected by the policy. Ministers say the

benefit cut was necessary and it is saving taxpayers over ?1 million a

day. We are working with people like home exchange, making sure people

build the right size properties, because for too long they had not.

We are still seeing some housing associations building three-bedroom

accommodation when we need one-bedroom and two bedroom. In

Aberdeen, the Smith family are still waiting for a larger home. Five of

them live in a two bedroom flat, currently all sleeping in the same

room while damp is removed from a bedroom. It is not fair for people

like us who have no chance of getting out of the situation we are

in. Most people who have their benefit cut have stayed and paid,

but the full impact of the policy has not yet been fully felt.

The former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis says his "nightmare is

continuing", after it was announced he's to face a further charge of

indecent assault. Last month, Mr Travis was cleared of 12 offences.

But he was told he'll face a retrial on two charges of indecent and

sexual assault on which the jury failed to agree verdicts.

The husband of the former News International boss Rebekah Brooks

has told the phone hacking trial that he and his wife were appalled

by revelations that the schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone had been

hacked. Charlie Brooks also said his wife was desperate to avoid being

photographed being led away in handcuffs, as she believed it would

end her career. He's accused of conspiring to pervert the course of

justice. The couple and five other defendants deny all charges.

Cat owners are being reassured that the risk of catching tuberculosis

from their pets is very small, after two people in Britain caught TB from

their cats, the first known cases in the world. Our medical correspondent

Fergus Walsh has more. For millions of cat owners, this

news may come as a shock. Two people in Berkshire are recovering after

being infected with TB by their captors. It was this a vet in

Newbury who raised the alarm after a cluster of nine cats in one small

area got bovine TB. My theory is that a stray cat has become infected

by hunting and infected small animal, or by meeting and infected

badger, and has been going through this territory and maybe had fights

with other cats. You can see it is like an arc that he has been

wandering along. The cats all had bovine TB, which primarily affects

cattle but can be spread by infected wildlife. The bacteria can be

breathed in, or passed on through cuts in the skin. Humans can be

cured with a six-month course of antibiotics. Every year, if you

people get bovine TB, also called M bovis, but health officials say

thousands get TB as a result of human to human transmission. The

numbers of human cases of M bovis are very low, especially compared to

the human form of tuberculosis. We get up to 35 cases a year, the

majority in older groups of people who may have been exposed in the

past. The plain fact is that I have more chance of winning the lottery

jackpot, or being struck by lightning, than of catching TB from

my cat, Merlin. But cats can pass on other diseases. Pregnant women are

advised to avoid changing cat litter, because of a parasite that

can be passed on, which can cause birth defects or miscarriages. All

of the TB infected cats had open wounds and had lost weight. Any pets

showing signs of sickness should be taken to a vet. Our top story this

evening. The search area for the missing Malaysian airlines flight

moves as for the first time debris is seen by spotter planes. And still

to come... A woman deaf since birth describes how hearing for the first

time even the most ordinary sounds has been overwhelming. Even like a

light switch. When I first did it, I tried it about ten times because I

have to hear it again and again. On BBC London. In memory of the

schoolgirl shot dead in Hackney. How her friends are now fundraising for

her funeral. And the vote for your favourite skyscraper. We will hear

from one of the world's leading architects.

Since last November we've been tracking the pressures on hospital

A departments and minor injury units. Before the winter started

there were concerns that many would struggle to see most patients within

four hours, and now we know how they've been getting on. In December

in England, 95% did see patients within four hours. With the figure

in Scotland slightly lower. Wales was lower again and Northern Ireland

lagged behind with 76%. As our health correspondent Branwen

Jefferies reports, a mild winter has eased the load. Another patient

arrives at Barnsley A This winter, the hospital hired extra

staff, open more beds, trying to cope with the growing numbers using

this busy casualty and avoid the chaos of Sundays last year. Output

you on your side. Relax your head and shoulders. Mark came in by

ambulance, sent by his GP to have his heart checked. Despite big

campaigns, many others who aren't seriously ill turnabout A,

something he simply can't understand. Accident and emergency,

that's what it is. A sniffle or a cough isn't an emergency. You can go

to your pharmacist. So what makes a difference to A? One of the

mildest winters in the last 100 years, hardly any flu or vomiting

bugs. If you get a severe headache or weakness in your arm, anything

that is worrying you. Barnsley, like many hospitals, got some extra

money. And, like many big units, still missed the target is to seek

patients in four hours, even though nurses came in on days off, senior

doctors covered junior night shifts because of staff shortages. The only

reason that the quality of care and patient safety has been maintained

is that the staff have all been working to maximum. They've been

pulling all the stops out to ensure that patients who do come here get

what we would expect for our families. Emergency units are

working very close to the limit of their capacity. The NHS this winter

did a lot of planning and has had some luck. But the long-term

pressures on A departments like this are just as great as ever. For

anyone running a hospital, the biggest problem... How to get enough

staff to meet those targets? Every chief executive probably has the A

performance at the top of their agenda at every meeting.

Unfortunately, money can't buy the people that we need to deliver it.

We are all trying to recruit the same type of people, extra

consultants, doctors and nurses. And that's part of the long-term

challenge for emergency units. Winter may be over but they are just

as busy as ever. There's been a huge response to our website tracking the

performance of hospitals in England through the winter. So if you'd like

to find out how your local A is performing, take a look at

bbc.co.uk/news/nhswinter. Some of Britain's biggest financial

institutions have seen hundreds of millions of pounds wiped off their

share values after it was announced that the industry is to be the

subject of a new inquiry. The Financial Conduct Authority is to

investigate 30 million financial policies, such as pensions and

endowments dating back to the 1970's. Our personal finance

correspondent Simon Gompertz is here. Presumably this is to check

people weren't being ripped off back then. It will be, and it's another

big blow for the insurance companies. They've already been told

people don't have to buy pension annuities from them, there's been a

clamp-down on new pensions. This look at older pensions, endowments

and other savings policies will be huge. The total savings add up to

?150 billion, between the 70s and about the year 2000. The charges on

those can have been quite high. For instance, of the money you put in,

potentially 5% an initial charge lopped off, then another charge if

you wanted to take the money out early, in some cases that added up

to 50% extra charges lopped off your savings. A big deal. What's going to

happen? I don't think it's going to be a compensation bonanza on the

scale of the PPI pay-outs, which were ?20 billion so far. Because the

FCA, the city watchdog, have said they are not going to be

retrospective, they will not tear up the terms and conditions people

agree to years ago, but they will look at how fair the situation is

now. If they decide it is unfair, they could put a lot of pressure on

insurance companies to reduce their charges. That would hit their

profits and hence the impact on their shares today. Some insurance

shares were down 16% at one point. Police in South Wales say a body

found near Newport yesterday is that of the missing teenager Nida Naseer.

The 19-year-old was last seen alive three months ago. The cause of her

death is not yet known but police say they are not looking for anyone

else in connection with what happened. The publicist Max Clifford

has called the women who have accused him of sexual assault

"fantasists and opportunists". During a heated cross-examination at

his trial, Mr Clifford said the allegations against him were

"rubbish". He denies eleven charges brought by seven women over nearly

two decades. Thousands of fishermen along Britain's southern and western

coasts are still struggling to overcome the impact of the recent

winter storms. Months of high winds and high seas left many unable to

work, and caused millions of pounds worth of damage, forcing many into

debt. Our Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith has more. Washed away. Sean

Williams has been fishing off this peninsula for over a quarter of a

century. But this winter's storms have left him struggling for

survival. I've got over 50 pots missing because they've moved so

much. It's impossible to know where they've gone. Across the Welsh

coast, weeks of giant waves and winds reaching 108 mph have kept

fishermen on the land and left their equipment exposed. Sean is already

?15,000 out of pocket. He will feel the storm's impact for the rest of

the year. It's the worst weather I've ever experienced, and there are

people who have been fishing for over 50 years and they've never seen

such extreme weather. And to see the continuation of the weather, it's

been blowing gales every day, for ten, 11 weeks. Even now the

conditions remain challenging. The catch is 75% down on what it should

be. In the last ten weeks this boat has been able to go out fewer than

ten times. Even though the waves are calm enough to look at the pots they

can find at the moment, there is very little in them, which means

fishermen going out at the moment are having to work at a loss. Many

have had to turn to charities to cover bills and mortgages. But they,

too, are seeing the money ran out. It has been unprecedented. A lot of

fishermen are telling me they are having threatening letters, letters

saying they will send the bailiffs round. A lot of them are worried

they will never ever be able to go back to fishing. For those who

invested a lifetime in fishing Britain's shores, giving up maybe

unthinkable. But it has left them questioning where they can go from

here. Imagine hearing for the first time after a lifetime of silence.

The moment 39-year-old Joanne Milne's life was transformed, thanks

to cochlear implants, was filmed by her mother. Joanne burst into tears

when she heard a nurse reading out the days of the week. She was born

deaf and during her 20's she also began to lose her sight, due to a

rare medical condition. Danny Savage has been to meet her. Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... Friday, Saturday, Sunday. A look of

shock and disbelief. For the first time in her life, Jo Milne has just

heard another human voice. It's been fantastic. It's all right. It is a

big, big life changing day today. Medics have switched on cochlear

implants which have been put in her ears. A world of sound has just

opened up to the 39-year-old. Daily February, March, April, May, June,

November, December. Back home in Gateshead today, Jo and

her mum discuss what it's like to hear herself talking. I've had a few

days to get used to it now but back on Monday it was very, very strange,

to hear my accent, my Geordie accent. It was amazing because I

thought we would sound very similar. My mum had her own voice, I had my

own voice, the therapist had her own voice. It was baffling. And it was

her mum, Anne, who filmed the moment Jo's hearing came to her, although

it wasn't the reaction she was expecting. No, I was expecting her

to go, I can hear! She just burst into tears. It was just her

emotional. I had tears running down. The charity worker also has

very poor eyesight, but has been told to get out as much as possible

to listen to the world and learn sounds. The noisy kittiwakes which

nest under the Tyne Bridge are familiar to many people here, but

not to Jo. The number of times I have walked under the Tyne Bridge

and not realised the sound of the birds. I can hear them now. That is

my sound of today. The film of a hearing for the first time has gone

viral. Jo turns 40 this summer and says life really is beginning for

her. Danny Savage, BBC News, Tyneside. Not a dry eye in the

house, what a great story! Much better weather on the way for

the weekend. We'll be losing the showers and thunderstorms. It's been

another very busy day on the rainfall picture. Heavy downpours

spiralling around the south-west. This afternoon, we saw this line of

fierce storms with hail and thunder in Coventry and work across the West

Midlands. That has spread across Wales. There's more to come

overnight. We are gradually shifting the showers further west and then

clearing away for the weekend, but still some outbreaks of rain for

parts of the UK overnight. The touch of frost in the north-west Highlands

and rural parts of north-eastern England. But it is all change for

the weekend. Temperatures on the up, the showers gone for a while. It

is still quite breezy but not the cold wind we've had recently. A

fairly slow start in the morning. Still a bit of rain further west and

in Scotland, gradually clearing away. Some coming back into Northern

Ireland during the afternoon. The main thing will be increasing

amounts of hazy sunshine and warmth. A bit of rain threatening the Isles

of Scilly on both Saturday and Sunday. Elsewhere, mainly dry for

the afternoon. It will feel very different. Note the strength of the

wind, a brisk southeasterly. For Northern Ireland, a lot of cloud and

some rain heading through early afternoon, slowly brightening in

Scotland. Down the eastern side of north-east England, a lot of low

cloud, mist and maybe some drizzle, not just on Saturday but Sunday,

too. It stays quite cool. On Sunday the clocks go forward, it's the

start of British summer Time. That's got nothing to do with the weather,

however, there is still some warmth out there with hazy sunshine, even a

little bit warmer than Saturday. A reminder of our main story. The

search area for the missing Malaysian airlines flight moves as

for the first time spotter planes find debris. That's all from the BBC

News at Six so it's goodbye from